Description
Staplegrove, a parish in Somerset, 1 1/2 mile N of Taunton station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Taunton; telegraph office, Taunton. Acreage, 1171; population of the civil parish, 1090; of the ecclesiastical, 778. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. For parish council purposes part of the parish has been taken into the borough of Taunton and added to St James' parish. There is a flock manufactory. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £150 with residence. The church was restored in 1857.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
